Bluemantle Pursuivant

Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary is a junior officer of arms of the College of Arms in London. The office is reputed to have been created by King Henry V to serve the Order of the Garter, but there is no documentary evidence of this. There is, however, mention of an officer styled Blewmantle going to France in 1448. The first Bluemantle to be mentioned by name is found in a record from around 1484. The badge of office, probably derived from the original blue material of the Order of the Garter, is blazoned as A Blue Mantle lined Ermine cords and tassels Or.

Bluemantle Pursuivant
The heraldic badge of Blue Mantle Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary
 
Heraldic traditionGallo-British
JurisdictionEngland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Governing bodyCollege of Arms

The current Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms is James Peill, FSA.


Holders of the office edit

ArmsNameDate of appointmentRef
John Ashwell or Haswell(Henry V)
John Ashwell(Henry V)
Thomas More(1419)
Thomas Collyer(Henry V)
William Hawkeslowe(Henry VI)
John Horsley(Henry VI)
Richard Stanton(Henry VI)
James Collyer or Collier(Henry VI)
John Ferrant(Henry VI)
Roger Mallett(Henry VI)
Henry French or Franke(Edward IV)
Richard Champneys(Edward IV)
Thomas Hollingsworth(Edward IV)
Roger Bromley(Edward IV)
John Brice(Edward IV)
Thomas French or Franke(Edward IV)
Rowland Playnford(Edward IV)
Laurence Alford(1484)
...Banalee1503–1507
Francis Dyes1508–1510
Ralph Lago1510–1522
Thomas Bysley1522–1528
John Hutton1528–1528
John Narboone1528–1536
Richard Ratcliffe1536–1543
William Harvey1543–1545
Edmund Atkynson1545–1550
Nicholas Narboone1550–1557
John Hollingworth1557–1559
Richard Turpin1559–1565
Nicholas Dethick1565–1583
Humphry Hales1583–1587
James Thomas1587–1589
Robert Treswell1589–1597
Mercury Patten1597–1611
Henry St George1611–1616
Sampson Lennard1616–1633
William Ryley1633–1641
Robert Browne1641–1646
John Watson1646–1660
Robert Chaloner1660–1665
Richard Hornebrooke1665–1667
Thomas Segar1669–1670
John Gibbon1670–1719
James Greene1719–1737
Thomas Browne1737–1743
John Pine1743–1747
Ralph Bigland1747–1752
John Ward1752–1761
Isaac Heard1761–1762
Henry Pujolas1762–1763
Peter Dore1763–1764
George Browne1764–1767
George Harrison1767–1774
Sir Charles Townley1774–1781
Edmund Lodge, Esq., FSA1781–1793
George Nayler1793–1794
John Havers1794–1797[1]
Francis Martin, Jr.1797–1819
William Woods1819–1831[2]
George Harrison Rogers-Harrison1831–1849[3]
Henry Murray Lane1849–1864[4]
Henry Harrington Molyneux-Seel1864–1873[5]
Edward Bellasis, Esq.1873–1882[6]
Charles Harold Athill, Esq., MVO, FSA1882–1889[7]
Gordon Ambrose de Lisle Lee, Esq., CB, CVO1889–1905[8]
Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, KCB, KCVO1906–1919[9]
Hon. Philip Plantagenet Cary, FSA1919–1923[10]
Edmund Clarence Richard Armstrong, Esq., FSA1923–1923[11]
Aubrey John Toppin, Esq., CVO, FSA1923–1932[12]
Richard Preston Graham-Vivian, Esq., MVO, MC1933–1947[13]
James Arnold Frere, Esq., FSA1948–1956[14]
John Philip Brook Brooke-Little, Esq., CVO, FSA1956–1967[15]
Francis Sedley Andrus, Esq., LVO1970–1972[16]
Sir Peter Llewellyn Gwynn-Jones, KCVO, FSA1973–1983[17]
Terence David McCarthy, Esq.1983–1991[18]
Robert John Baptist Noel, Esq.1992–1999[19]
Michael Peter Desmond O'Donoghue, Esq.2005–2012[20]
Mark John Rosborough Scott, Esq.2019–2024[21]
James van Someren Peill, Esq., FSA2024–present[22]

See also edit

References edit

Citations

  1. ^ "No. 13653". The London Gazette. 13 May 1794. p. 425.
  2. ^ "No. 17468". The London Gazette. 13 April 1819. p. 658.
  3. ^ "No. 4019". The Edinburgh Gazette. 29 November 1831. p. 323.
  4. ^ "No. 21009". The London Gazette. 14 August 1849. p. 2532.
  5. ^ "No. 22912". The London Gazette. 15 November 1864. p. 5371.
  6. ^ "No. 24045". The London Gazette. 16 December 1873. p. 5936.
  7. ^ "No. 25130". The London Gazette. 25 July 1882. p. 3458.
  8. ^ "No. 25967". The London Gazette. 23 August 1889. p. 4611.
  9. ^ "No. 11795". The Edinburgh Gazette. 16 January 1906. p. 70.
  10. ^ "No. 31243". The London Gazette. 21 March 1919. p. 3753.
  11. ^ "No. 32803". The London Gazette. 6 March 1923. p. 1817.
  12. ^ "No. 32849". The London Gazette. 31 July 1923. p. 5239.
  13. ^ "No. 33925". The London Gazette. 28 March 1933. p. 2115.
  14. ^ "No. 38221". The London Gazette. 27 February 1948. p. 1492.
  15. ^ "No. 40932". The London Gazette. 23 November 1956. p. 6634.
  16. ^ "No. 45066". The London Gazette. 24 March 1970. p. 3415.
  17. ^ "No. 45947". The London Gazette. 6 April 1973. p. 4481.
  18. ^ "No. 49291". The London Gazette. 17 March 1983. p. 3737.
  19. ^ "No. 53094". The London Gazette. 2 November 1992. p. 18353.
  20. ^ "No. 57539". The London Gazette. 21 January 2005. p. 703.
  21. ^ "No. 62688". The London Gazette. 20 June 2019. p. 10952.
  22. ^ "No. 64374". The London Gazette. 22 April 2024. p. 7898.

Bibliography

  • The College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street : being the sixteenth and final monograph of the London Survey Committee, Walter H. Godfrey, assisted by Sir Anthony Wagner, with a complete list of the officers of arms, prepared by H. Stanford London, (London, 1963)
  • A History of the College of Arms &c, Mark Noble, (London, 1804)

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